moral philosophy

noun

: ethics

also : the study of human conduct and values

Examples of moral philosophy in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

After all, the idea that the seventeenth century was a time of general crisis originally referred to the critical, even radical thrust of the period’s natural and moral philosophy. —Deborah R. Coen, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2014

Weisberg describes working with Fields—son of a rabbi, studied moral philosophy in college—as transformative. —Laura Kipnis, WIRED, 5 Dec. 2023

Something about that juxtaposition—Aristotle in the mornings, clumsy pots of dal in the evenings—has inured me to all visions of moral philosophy as a simple variety of self-help. —Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023

So, which of the options are preferable from the viewpoint of moral philosophy? —WIRED, 23 June 2023

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above